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  • Scotland Allocates GBP 1.5 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

    20 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    The Scottish Government has awarded GBP 1.5 million (approx. EUR 2 million) of funding to the Carbon Trust to support its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) research and design programme. The Carbon Trust will fund projects in regard to floating offshore wind technology in Scotland, international collaboration on efficiency of Scottish offshore wind projects, and knowledge sharing on innovation and […]

  • Offshore Wind Lifts Subsea 7

    27 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 reported revenue of USD 897 million for the first quarter of 2017, a 20% jump compared to the same period a year earlier mainly due to a good performance of the company’s newly formed Renewables and Heavy Lifting division.

  • Seatools Automates Anode Cage Installation at Hohe See

    26 July 2017
    Technology

    GeoSea has awarded Seatools with a contract for the design and delivery of a tool to be used for an automated installation of 71 anode cages at the Hohe See offshore wind farm site in Germany. The anode cage installation aid, designed in close collaboration with GeoSea, will be deployed to accurately position, direct, and fasten anode cages.

  • Danske Commodities Strikes Again

    16 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Danish energy trading company Danske Commodities has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Effective 16 July, Danske Commodities will take over balancing and trading of 281MW, equivalent to 70% of the wind farm’s production. The 402MW Dudgeon is owned by Equinor (35%), Masdar (35%) and […]

  • Highlights of the Month: December 2017

    3 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall Gives Reasons for Choosing Siemens Gamesa 8MW Turbine Vattenfall has chosen the new 8MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbine for its Danish offshore wind farms because it “was simply the cheapest choice in the market measured by cost per generated megawatt-hour electricity,” Michael Simmelsgaard, Head of Offshore Wind and Country Manager for Vattenfall in Denmark, said. Spain: […]

  • Survivex to Launch GWO Wind Training in Aberdeen

    1 July 2020
    Training & Education

    Survivex has invested more than GBP 100,000 in new facilities and equipment to align its training centre in Aberdeen to the Global Wind Organisation (GWO) standards, and will start with the first GWO courses on 6 July. The company, focused mostly on offshore training in the oil & gas sector until now, said that with […]

  • Japan’s Largest Banks Eye More European Offshore Wind Financing

    1 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Negative interest rates in Japan have pushed two of the country’s biggest banks, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, to adding more project finance loans for, primarily European, renewable energy as infrastructure such as offshore wind farms brings strong yields.  Spanish Banco Santander was the largest loan provider for renewable energy assets last year, Bloomberg writes, […]

  • European Fund for Strategic Investments Extended to 2020

    19 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The European Commission has announced that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) will be extended for three further years to 2020, with the aim of mobilising EUR 500 billion in investment. EFSI was set up in 2015 to kick-start investments in the EU by mobilising private finance, and a large part of investments under […]

  • UK: Wick Harbour Could Benefit from Offshore Wind Development

    20 February 2013

    Inspite of the fact that the Wick Harbour was not among Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s (HIE) list of four bases for the development of the offshore wind sector, the development agency insists the port is not neglected in this aspect, reports Johnogroat Journal. The National Renewable Infrastructure Plan (N-RIP) identified a number of key sites […]

  • Cromarty Firth Port Hosts Fabrication and Assembly of New Power Device (UK)

    10 May 2011

      The Invergordon Service Base has played host to the fabrication and assembly of the next generation wave power device. The Powerbuoy ®, PB150, is the largest and most powerful designed to date by Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) and with a peak rated power output of 150KW, would produce enough energy to supply 150 homes. […]

  • Crown Estate Scotland Names Marine Head

    11 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Vessels

    The Crown Estate Scotland has appointed Colin Palmer to lead the development of offshore renewable energy and aquaculture.

  • Rentel Gets Air Support

    18 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The NHV Group has secured a new contract with Siemens Gamesa to provide helicopter services in support of the Rentel offshore wind farm project in the Belgian North Sea.

  • UK, Belgian OWFs Backed by EIB’s €17Bn Fund

    23 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved more than EUR 17 billion of new loans to support investment in telecommunications, water infrastructure, renewable energy, roads, schools and hospitals, and backed lending for small business investment across Europe and around the world. The EIB Board approved support for strategic infrastructure investment totalling nearly EUR 7 billion. […]

  • Scotland Backs Offshore Wind Innovation with GBP 2 Million

    20 June 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    Scottish government has awarded some GBP 2 million in funding to Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and, Energy Skills Partnership to support innovation across the offshore wind sector.

  • WFW Advises CIP on OffshoreMW Acquisition

    5 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) advised Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) on the acquisition of 100% of OffshoreMW, which holds a 675km² offshore wind energy lease off the coast of Massachusetts.  Outside the US, CIP already owns stakes in two offshore wind farms – the 588MW Beatrice in the UK and the 402MW Veja Mate in Germany, with […]

  • Crown Estate Scotland Makes Offshore Wind Data Public

    28 August 2017
    Authorities

    Crown Estate Scotland now has spatial data relating to the organisation’s offshore assets freely available on their website for the first time.

  • Hutchinson Engineering Secures Hohe See Contract

    24 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Hutchinson Engineering Ltd (HEL) has secured a contract to provide anode cage assemblies for EnBW’s Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • BiFab Crisis Continues with No Money Left for Staff Wages

    14 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    The BiFab management informed trade unions on 13 November that there was no money to pay the wages of their staff. Problems that led BiFab to being a few steps away from going into administration have emerged from a dispute over payments with Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL), who awarded BiFab with the fabrication of 26 Beatrice jacket foundations. 

  • Siemens Gamesa Sends Off First Rentel Nacelles

    21 March 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has shipped out the first nacelles for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm from Cuxhaven, Germany, to the installation port in Ostend, Belgium.

  • Danske Commodities Takes On UK Renewables Market Experts

    21 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Volker Beckers and Anne Broeng have joined the Board of Directors of the Aarhus-based Danske Commodities to provide additional insight into UK market and add risk management competences, one week after the company entered the UK renewables market. The independent energy service company last week signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Beatrice Offshore Wind farm Limited (BOWL). […]

  • Offshore Wind Generates 9.9% of UK Energy in 2019

    27 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind generated 9.9% of total energy in the UK in 2019, largely due to new capacity coming online, according to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The UK renewable electricity capacity was 47.4GW at the end of 2019, a 3GW or 6.9% increase on the year earlier. Offshore wind farms […]

  • Offshore Wind to Get Entire Seacat Fleet Busy in 2018

    3 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    UK vessel operator Seacat Services will see its fleet reach a maximum occupancy in 2018 with all 14 vessels under charter in certain periods of the year due to the growing demand in the offshore wind sector.

  • UK: SFF Holds Exploratory Talks with Moray Firth OWF Developers

    2 April 2013

    The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has held exploratory talks (26 March) with Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd (MORL) to develop mitigation strategies for the first phase of a development proposal for a major offshore windfarm in the Moray Firth. These initial discussions focused on early engagement plans with the Scottish fishing industry to explore practical co-existence and […]

  • Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa and Sif Stars of Europe’s Installed Offshore Wind Capacity

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa and Sif Group currently hold the biggest slices of cakes in their respective fields, when looking at the total installed offshore wind capacity in Europe. 

  • Scottish Energy Ports Directory Goes Live

    21 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), Scottish Enterprise (SE) and the British Ports Association (BPA) have launched a Scottish ports directory which provides technical information on active Scottish marine energy industry ports covering the oil and gas, decommissioning, subsea and renewable sectors.

  • New Bird Monitoring Innovation Challenge Takes Off

    25 May 2017
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd has partnered with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to launch an innovation challenge to help wind farm developers better monitor and understand the behaviour of important species.